Asia's Week Ahead: Production and Manufacturing Fi

11/26/2010 7:31AM

This week, Japan's October production figures will provide further clues about the state of the economy. And in China, a manufacturing survey will give an indication of the country's industrial momentum. MarketWatch's Chris Oliver reports.

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I ... Japan's industrial production figures for October will provide further clues to the ... economy ... while a separate set of manufacturing activity surveys for China what helps show where the rebound is holding out there ... for MarketWatch Hong Kong when Chris Oliver and this is a peak ... on Tuesday Japan releases industrial production figures for the month of October ... what we're sticking see there is an activity would actually contract of three point ... three point eight percent for the month ... on domestic port because it would mark the fifth straight month in a row that activity has been shrinking ... and isn't a backdrop of the expiry of ... government incentives to spur the economy in the summertime ... as well as the procession then maybe it was the from the knee and Japanese goods by foreign countries to me this year ... and know what they're doing is there a nine ... time ... inventory destocking instead of rising of the new new purchasing orders ... on and this is coming in ... against a backdrop of data late last week which slowed ... down ... Japan's ... exports to world ... grew seven point eight percent in the month of October ... in fact it sounds like a lot to thank you very rather mild rate of growth considering that ... experts had BB gun of almost fifty percent earlier this year ... to receive a steady decline in the rate of Japanese export growth as the year wears on ... on which ... will take the focus mayor in thereto ... China where we'll have to ... manufacturing survey indexes ... Beazer was called ... Purchasing Managers on fees it was copper's he Managers Indexes ... they are effectively snapshot of the economy industrial activity in time ... China's economy ... and ... no one at the official one and the suspect one by HSBC ... I know the official one in the month of ... October showed ... that ... activity had actually increased during the marking the twentieth consecutive month of growth ... in no way ... economists are expecting this week ... is that will see that Acuvue remains positive but the rate of growth may be slowing ... so ... in effect ... what we need the witnessing is that the global rebound was very strong earlier this year is now beginning to updates lately ... and that slowing growth is beginning to wash up Enrique throughout Asia stocks the system ... and the stars were here is a very important look at just how deep the slowdown is ... for MarketWatch Hong Kong when Chris Oliver ...